Make time to motivate the team by motivating the team members individually

“I don’t have time”! How often do each of us say this everyday or at least think it.  But we also know we make time for what we think is important. 
Motivating each of our team members is something worth making time for.  However, false praise is worse than no praise at all, it re-inforces bad [...]

Team Motivation through Recognition

How individuals are best motivated needs to fit best with the individuals preferences I’ll cover 4 different perspectives which should address the majority of team members.  However, prior to determining how to best motivate I’d like to cover off the overarching need to “SEE” each individual.  David Zinger made an interesting post Employee Engagement: I See [...]

Top 10 Ways to Improve Communication Within the Team

Quick list of the top 10 ways to improve communication within a team and pointers on which areas to focus on depending on the personality types of the team mates.

Meetings and Team Performance, how can you make the most of both?

Having spent many years where I spent almost 90% of my day in meetings and struggling to find time to actually do any of the tasks I managed to pick up while at the meetings, I found Seth Godin’s posting “Getting serious about your meeting problem” a great list of ideas to try to make [...]